October
15
With Bergen he wont be able to go
out at 18 because he wont be graduated. He will still have to wait until he is
almost 19 anyway. I think that this new revelation that the first presidency
received will effect the young women of the church more. I think there are
going to be TONS more sister missionaries in the field. I am glad I went out at
19 though beacause I had great experiences at BYU the first year before I went
on the mission.
I am really excited to fly the
Cherokee. I enjoyed the talk that Elder Uchtdorf Gave talking about his piper
cub that he flew. He also talked about the Wright Brothers which afterwards
sparked the same argument that the Brazilians have that Santos DuMont invented
the airplane first. The truth is that there are many people that were tinkering
with the idea of an airplane but those that flew first were the Wright
Brothers, who took to the air one week before Santos DuMont. Yet besides the
established dates and facts the brazilians will argue to the death about that.
Thats good that the misisonaries are
doing well there. I think that the problem that they have there is the same
problem that we have and that all missions must have. It is difficult to find
normal people from stable families to teach that will actually ACCEPT the gospel
and stay active in it. The people that have been baptised in most wards here in
the past few years are more often than not incredibly strange and in some sort
of extenuating circumstance and are unwilling to take the effort to go back to
church. Conferecne however was really great and I am excited to get the Ensign with all of the talks next month!
Well I hope that you are doing well with the ward there and that if you have any work this week that it can go well!
That is good that is starting to rain a little bit more there in connell. The rain here has stopped. The heat is manifesting itself, and I am praying to not melt in the next few months. I can imagine that Chelsea is super excited to be out in the field. I was the same way before going out into the MTC and even more excited to leave the MTC and enter the field.
I found that story of the felon a
bit funny, just because it got rachel and Bergen so scared. So you got a VW?
That is the brand of car that is most comon here in Brazil. Not usually new
though. Joel Crowther has lost a lot of weight? He was already pretty skinny
when he left for the mission. I hope he is doing fine. He is going to be
getting back way soon. Same with Michael Casper and Blake Nielson. Im really
excited now to be able to fly that Cherokee.
Did you send that Package to the
P.O. Box (caixa postal) address? President and the secretaries are cracking
down on letters now and have said that any letter that shows up at the Rua
Pascualine address after November will not be given to us until THE END of our
missions. They dont want ANYTHING showing up to the mission office. So if you
could please advise the people that would be nice. Make sure that everyone that
may send me a letter knows to send me a letter to the caixa postal address,
because it seems that everyone still sends me letters to the mission office.
The missionary work is going great. We marked the baptismal date of Moisés a young man who has been going to church for about 3 months now, who is essentially already a member. WE are going to baptize him and help him to receive the aaronic priesthood so that he can baptize his friend here in a few months.
We found some really awesome people
this week and our perspective sucess is pretty big. We went and talked to Rose,
our investigator who told us that her husband has softened to the gospel and
now has a huge desire to go to church and keep the commandments etc. They have
been taught by missionaries in the past, but he was always hiding from them and
never keeping the comitments, but Rose said that ever since we started teaching
them he has changed and is really wanting to follow the gospel. We are working
on getting them married soon so that they can be baptized next month.
We also found, several weeks back a
less active lady who is legally married to a nonmember and this week we finally
managed to teach them again. She has a great desire to return to church and I
am certain that he will be a member of the church relatively soon. The ward here is one of the strongest in the mission, and I am really greatful for the members here. Granted the ward has problems, but which ward doesnt. Im hoping I stay here for at least one transfer.
The nearest temple from here is in Porto Alegre which is about 4 hours or so from here.
I love you and hope that everything is going great there!
-Elder Eskildsen
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